Mariska te Beest
Biographic Data
| ID | 6018900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariska te Beest |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariska te |
| FAMILY NAME | Beest |
| SIGNATURE | BEEST M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3673-4105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Advancing nature-based solutions toward sustainability
As global warming and environmental challenges escalate, nature-based solutions (NbSs) have emerged as a critical strategy to combat climate change, biod iversity loss, and ecosystem degradation while also providing co-benefits to human well-being and eco nomic resilience (Seddon 2022). These solutions influence key earth system processes, such as carbon, water, and energy cycles, while in turn, their effect iveness is shaped by complex interacti…
Widespread forest-savanna coexistence but limited bistability at a landscape scale in Central Africa
Tropical forest and savanna frequently coexist under the same climatic conditions, which has led to the hypothesis that they could represent alternative ecosystem states, stabilized by internal feedbacks. An implication of this hypothesis is that forest and savanna may be bistable and exhibit tipping behavior in response to changing conditions. However, we pose that the local presence of forest and savanna within coexistence landscapes is not suf…
Megagrazer loss drives complex landscape-scale biophysical cascades
Wild animals can modulate ecosystem-climate feedbacks, e.g. through impacts on vegetation and associated carbon dynamics. However, vegetation cover and composition also affect land surface albedo, which is an important component of the global energy budget. We currently know very little about the influence of wild animals on land surface albedo and the resulting climate forcing of these albedo changes. Leveraging a unique, ecosystem-scale, semi-e…
Grassland albedo as a nature-based climate prospect
Nature-based solutions for mitigating climate change focus largely on land management to reduce carbon emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Tree planting, commonly advocated for carbon offset, threatens grassland biodiversity and may induce positive radiative forcing (warming) by lowering albedo. Before making decisions about land-use changes in grasslands, an understanding of the fine-scale albedo of grassy versus woody vegetation is need…
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity
Rangelands face threats from climate and land-use change, including inappropriate climate change mitigation initiatives such as tree planting in grassy ecosystems. The marginalization and impoverishment of rangeland communities and their indigenous knowledge systems, and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, are additional major challenges. To address these issues, we propose the wilder rangelands integrated framework, co-developed by …
Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene
Anthropogenic Influences in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park
Reindeer grazing increases summer albedo by reducing shrub abundance in Arctic tundra
Previous studies have shown that climate warming is causing shrub cover to increase at high latitudes. Increased shrub cover generally lowers surface albedo, which results in higher energy absorption and further warming. In parts of Fennoscandia, herbivory is known to control vegetation height and abundance, and thus preventing this positive feedback. Here, we combine field measurements of albedo, herbivory and vegetation characteristics in four …
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity
Rangelands face threats from climate and land-use change, including inappropriate climate change mitigation initiatives such as tree planting in grassy ecosystems. The marginalization and impoverishment of rangeland communities and their indigenous knowledge systems, and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, are additional major challenges. To address these issues, we propose the wilder rangelands integrated framework, co-developed by …
Reindeer grazing increases summer albedo by reducing shrub abundance in Arctic tundra
Previous studies have shown that climate warming is causing shrub cover to increase at high latitudes. Increased shrub cover generally lowers surface albedo, which results in higher energy absorption and further warming. In parts of Fennoscandia, herbivory is known to control vegetation height and abundance, and thus preventing this positive feedback. Here, we combine field measurements of albedo, herbivory and vegetation characteristics in four …
Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene
Anthropogenic Influences in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park
Widespread forest-savanna coexistence but limited bistability at a landscape scale in Central Africa
Tropical forest and savanna frequently coexist under the same climatic conditions, which has led to the hypothesis that they could represent alternative ecosystem states, stabilized by internal feedbacks. An implication of this hypothesis is that forest and savanna may be bistable and exhibit tipping behavior in response to changing conditions. However, we pose that the local presence of forest and savanna within coexistence landscapes is not suf…
Megagrazer loss drives complex landscape-scale biophysical cascades
Wild animals can modulate ecosystem-climate feedbacks, e.g. through impacts on vegetation and associated carbon dynamics. However, vegetation cover and composition also affect land surface albedo, which is an important component of the global energy budget. We currently know very little about the influence of wild animals on land surface albedo and the resulting climate forcing of these albedo changes. Leveraging a unique, ecosystem-scale, semi-e…
Grassland albedo as a nature-based climate prospect
Nature-based solutions for mitigating climate change focus largely on land management to reduce carbon emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Tree planting, commonly advocated for carbon offset, threatens grassland biodiversity and may induce positive radiative forcing (warming) by lowering albedo. Before making decisions about land-use changes in grasslands, an understanding of the fine-scale albedo of grassy versus woody vegetation is need…
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity
Rangelands face threats from climate and land-use change, including inappropriate climate change mitigation initiatives such as tree planting in grassy ecosystems. The marginalization and impoverishment of rangeland communities and their indigenous knowledge systems, and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, are additional major challenges. To address these issues, we propose the wilder rangelands integrated framework, co-developed by …
Advancing nature-based solutions toward sustainability
As global warming and environmental challenges escalate, nature-based solutions (NbSs) have emerged as a critical strategy to combat climate change, biod iversity loss, and ecosystem degradation while also providing co-benefits to human well-being and eco nomic resilience (Seddon 2022). These solutions influence key earth system processes, such as carbon, water, and energy cycles, while in turn, their effect iveness is shaped by complex interacti…
Environmental Science (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Agroforestry (3 works) · Aeolian processes and effects (2 works) · Albedo (alchemy (2 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (2 works) · Cartography (2 works)